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<p>The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in August 1944. Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of resistance in France during World War II sweeps aside “the French Resistance” of a thousand clich
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- Author
- Robert Gildea
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674286108
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, France
- Rating
- 3.58 / 5 (45 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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